Transport bosses are battling to return services to normal across Glasgow today as the city enters the third day of disruption due to severe weather.

An amber alert for heavy snow is due to be lifted by the Met Office at 10am (Friday, March 2) and many residents of the city are attempting to get back to some sense of normality after thousands were forced to stay off work while the Beast from the East wreaked havoc.

The heavy snowfall may have eased off to an extent but the continuation of treacherous conditions means official advice from police and government chiefs is still to avoid all travel unless absolutely necessary.

Council workers have been working round the clock to ensure main roads in and out of the city centre are clear and safe and limited bus services have been operating since first thing this morning.

First Bus Glasgow says its priority is to “get people moving” but services are being “continually assessed”.

At the moment they are unable to serve Springburn, Drumchapel and the Clydebank areas and are not operating in local housing estates across the area, where build ups of snow are more prevalent.

First Bus staff hard at work at their depot (Image: First Bus/Twitter)

First bosses are reminding passengers that drivers are not accepting train tickets as payment as all ScotRail services are cancelled until at least 10am this morning.

People are urged to check the First Bus app for live updates – though be warned, their website has been crashing and running slowly all morning due to demand.

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McGill’s, which was also forced to cancel all services yesterday, is running a limited service in some areas and a normal timetable, subject to delays, in Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire. Staff worked around the clock to clear their depots but with many roads in Inverclyde impassable, buses there are still not in operation.

Citylink bosses are running very limited services, subject to delays, but bosses are reminding customers only to travel “if absolutely necessary” and to prepare for a longer journey with disruption if needed.

They say they’ve had an unprecedented amount of calls at their HQ this morning and state: “Please bear with our teams today, we are committed to operating every service that we can”.

With the departures board set to remain blank at Glasgow Central Station for most of the day, staff at Virgin Trains say there are expected to be no services between Glasgow and the rest of the country as snow drifts six feet deep take a hold of towns and cities across the UK.

There will be no National Express services until at least mid-afternoon today.

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Residential areas in and around Greater Glasgow are still feeling the severe effects of one of the worst snowstorms to hit the UK in decades.

The entire fleet of TranServ snow ploughs have been out in force across Scotland as the country faced a third day of lockdown due to the extreme weather.

And with a yellow weather warning for snow coming into force for Glasgow at 10am this morning, set to remain in place until just before midnight tomorrow (Saturday, March 3), it doesn’t look like a return to normal service for a while yet.